Andy Serkis Quotes
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'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.
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Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
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Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
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I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
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I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.
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I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
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I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
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I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
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I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
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I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.
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Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.
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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
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My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.
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I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
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People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.
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You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
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Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.
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I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.
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More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.